As a consequence, Parliament will not be sitting after September 9 for just over a month. According to some of the hysterical responses, this is variously a coup, illegal and – in the words of the Speaker – a “constitutional outrage”. Others are saying that Boris Johnson is behaving like a fascist, a dictator and a thug. Which is all rather odd, since I don’t recall anyone saying the same things about his predecessor, Theresa May.

In 2017, under Mrs May, the House of Commons rose on September 14 and returned on October 9. Last year it rose on September 13 and returned on October 9. Was this also a government coup? No, it was entirely normal, the usual break the Commons takes around the time of the party conferences.

This year, as usual, the Commons will rise on September 10. Boris Johnson yesterday announced that it will not return until a week later than might have been expected, on October 14. Cue the hysteria over these extra few days.

But the reason for the extra few days’ recess is entirely proper – it is because there will be a Queen’s Speech on October 14. This is, according to the Remainers, an outrage. And yet these self-same people were screaming exactly the same -earlier this year when Mrs May cancelled the Queen’s Speech expected in May or June.

Chris Bryant, a fanatical Remainer Labour MP, said in April that Mrs May’s decision not to have a Queen’s Speech was a “constitutional outrage”.

Yesterday Mr Bryant was touring radio and TV studios explaining how the decision to hold a Queen’s Speech, which is entirely normal for a new Prime Minister to outline his or her new agenda, was, you guessed it… a constitutional outrage.

Let me tell you what really is a democratic outrage – the attempt to stop Brexit by Remainer MPs who still refuse, three years on, to accept the result of the 2016 referendum.

On Tuesday we had the appalling spectacle of MPs gathering in Church House to parade their contempt for democracy, pledging in effect to do whatever they can to stop Brexit. Their latest wheeze, a so-called Citizens’ Assembly, is almost beyond parody.

So convinced are they of their own virtue that they have asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to chair it, presumably because they believe they have God on their side.

The bubble in which these Remainer MPs live is so tightly sealed that it doesn’t seem to have occurred to any of them that people who want to implement the result of the referendum are citizens too.

Let’s get some perspective here. If the Remainers want to try to stop the Queen’s Speech or Brexit, they still can. For all the screaming about the Government forcing through a no-deal Brexit, nothing of substance has changed. Jeremy Corbyn can table a vote of no confidence and if a majority of MPs want to remove the Government and change course, they can.

The Remainers can also try, as they have been suggesting they would, to push through a Bill that would suspend Article 50 (by which we are leaving the EU). Parliament is coming back on Monday and you can be sure that the Speaker, John Bercow, will carry on doing all in his power (and doubtless beyond it) to help the Remainers.

But they should be careful what they wish for. For all the madness and faux outrage of the past 48 hours, they have been very useful in exposing in starkly unambiguous terms the Remainer determination to do anything to stop Brexit.

Try as they will, they will not stop BREXIT. It does not matter HOW, it only matters that Britain WILL LEAVE the EU. WHY? Because Bible Prophecy is very clear on the fact that Britain will not be a part of the EU in the "latter days". Britian will along with the Commonwealth Countries (and America who is also of British origin) make up the King of the South at the time of the end that will move to stop Russia and Europe from invading the Middle East.

God has declared the End from the Beginning and the Bible (God's Word) revealed that Britain would not be part of the EU when Christ Returns to Earth, and World Events have conspired to ensure that has now happened. But we need to keep watching this development as there is much to see yet as Britain takes her place once more on the World Political Stage.

So yet again we see the hand of God at work in the nations to ensure that His purpose unfolds on the earth. Britain has now voted to leave the EU and will rebuild her ties with the Commonwealth Block. Together they will challenge the rise of Russia and the EU and their influence in the Middle East.

Is Bible Truth important to your Faith and Salvation ie. will you be saved despite what you believe the bible teaches or does it matter what you believe?

Well the word “truth” appears 237 times in the bible, that alone says it must be important!

Therefore it must be important to understand what “truth” is.

A quick scan of the passages using this word “truth” leave us in no doubt that it is not only important, but vital to our salvation.

John 17:3

3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

1 John 5:20

20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true,even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

1 Timothy 2:3-4

3For thisis good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Clearly then knowing what is Bible Truth is important and vital, in addition to this we are also warned that some would depart from the “truth”…

1 Timothy 4:1

1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 Forbidding to marry,and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

1 John 4:6

6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

From these passages it is very clear that we need to know the “truth” about God and His Son as it is taught to us in the Bible. This means we must learn what this is from the Bible itself.

Don't let your HOPE of LIFE ETERNAL rest with someone else eg. your pastor or minister, YOU owe it to yourself and your family to be fully convinced of what it is you believe to be sure it HOLDS something REAL for you.

We have all been warned by God that there would be many false teachers and Jesus himself has told us that "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." See Matthew 7:14

Sadly when Christ returns to this earth, many will only then realise that they have believed in lies Jeremiah 16:19

"19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit."

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“Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him… This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life…" Deuteronomy Chapter 30:12-20

From this passage we see how important it is to each one of us that we seek after God and His Word the Bible to us.

Without this we have no hope of LIFE, but only a future of DEATH.

This Word of God was originally given to the Nation of Israel and later it spread via the Apostles of Christ to the World, that even we today might have this same HOPE of LIFE ETERNAL.

It is UP to YOU then to seek out God’s Word, to KNOW what is the TRUTH of God’s Word so that you and your family might KNOW the way of LIFE ETERNAL and the great HOPE of living in God’s Kingdom on EARTH.

Do not let your HOPE rest upon others and most importantly on what others teach, search it out for yourself because we have been warned that the churches would be astray from God’s word in the last days.

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”2 Timothy 4:3-4

Too much is at stake for you to not act yourself to seek out the TRUTH.

Christ himself has told us to do this when he said…

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Godis a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”John 4:23-24

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The King of the South Asserts Itself Against Iran, Forming Biblical Partnerships as it Does.

FULFILLING BIBLE PROPHECY.

Saudi Arabia has been going through a transformation to take on the growing influence of Iran in the Middle East. America has been wanting it to take this role, but now is concerned. Israel comes out and speaks openly of forging an alliance with it. The Biblical players who make up the King of the South are coming into place.

During the past few weeks (November 2017) it has become evident that the powers south of Israel are undergoing a metamorphosis, and aligning themselves with the biblical script that is laid out in the Prophets.

The Southern Confederacy as Described by the Prophets

Zechariah describes the scene as two mountains of brass, (the biblical representation of flesh,) having developed in the region surrounding Israel,

between which the cherubic chariots roar through when the March of the Rainbowed angel commences:

“And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.” (Zechariah 6:1)

Ezekiel describes these two mountains of brass in terms of the Gogian confederacy to the north and a southern conglomerate in alliance with the Merchants of Tarshish who protest Gog’s invasion of the land:

“Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?” (Ezekiel 38:13)

Daniel describes the mountains of brass as a king of the North and a King of the South who provokes the King of the North, drawing him into the land:

“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.” (Daniel 11:40)

Later he identifies some of the players holding out to the south when the King of the North invades the land:

“He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.” (Daniel 11:41)

So the southern confederacy is a mercantile alliance under the influence of the king of the south, containing Sheba, Dedan, Edom, Moab, and Ammon. We have explored at length the Merchants of Tarshish and the young lions, which equate to Britain (the mother lion) and its former colonial territories, now independent young lions, including in their ranks America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa.

John Thomas, when writing Elpis Israel in 1848, during the days of the Ottoman Turkish Empire looked for developments that would see this group coming together under the influence of Britain:

But what is the lion-power of which Ezekiel speaks? To ascertain this we must direct our attention to the countries named in connection with “the young lions”. Of these, Sheba and Dedan are districts of Arabia. The men of Dedan are in the list given by Ezekiel of the traders in the Tyrian fairs. The Dedanim carried thither the ivory and ebony which they procured from “the many isles” to the eastward, and “precious clothes for chariots”. Sheba carried the “chief of all spices, precious stones, and gold”. Dedan and Sheba were those parts of Arabia which lay convenient to the ivory, gold, precious stones, and spice countries of Africa and India. The Sultan of Muscat now rules the country of Dedan; while the British have planted their standard on the soil of Sheba, at Aden, the Gibraltar of the Red Sea, and key of Egypt.… The British power is the lion-power of Sheba. (John Thomas, 1848, Elpis Israel, pp467)

John Thomas correctly predicted the demise of the Ottomon Turkish Empire, and the occupation of the region by Britain, which occurred 70 years after he wrote, and 100 years ago from our time in December 1917. This gave room for the rebirth of the State of Israel, a preparatory move for the coming kingdom of God, described in the book of Revelation as the drying up of the River Euphrates:

“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might (sun’s rising) be prepared.” (Revelation 16:12)

Preparing for the Final Stage

However, once the nation of Israel was established in the land in 1948, Britain lost its direct influence in the region. The mantle was passed over to America who would be the protecting Lion for a period of time. Britain re-introduced herself to the region, alongside her grown up whelp when the Gulf Wars begin in 1991, and has been there along with Canada, New Zealand, Australia and others since this time to varying degrees. A conglomeration of nations rushed to the aid of Kuwait under President George Bush, and then again after 9/11 they invaded Afghanistan and subsequently Iraq to protect the Gulf states, and consequently Israel from the aggression of Saddam Hussein. After a vacuum was created in Iraq, a new group ISIS or DAESH was formed in the region and violence spilled over into other countries such as Syria, bringing Russia into the region during Obama’s impotent stint as president.

The whole arena has been undergoing terrific turmoil since the British departure as the protector over the region. It is worth taking a couple of minutes to consider the background of the players:

Egypt was a British protectorate until it gained independence in 1936, remaining a monarchy until 1953 when Gamal Abdul Nasser took over during a military coup. His efforts to destroy Israel were routed during the Six Day War in 1967, but remained in power until his death in 1970 when Anwar Sadat took over. Sadat tried to destroy Israel in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, but was defeated and began the peace process under President Carter, and with Menachem Begin. He was assassinated in 1981, after which Hosni Mubarak took over and ruled until the Arab Spring protests when he was deposed in 2011. The Muslim Brotherhood under President Morsi ruled until the military overthrew it in 2013 and installed al-Sisi as President.

To the east of Israel is the nation of Jordan, which became an independent Arab state in 1946 as part of the partition of the region by the UN. Its ruler was King Abdullah, who had fought with Lawrence of Arabia to oust the Turks. He was assassinated by Palestinians terrorists in 1951. His son King Hussein took over, and ruled during the 1967 Six Day War when Jordan was defeated and lost the West Bank Territory, and during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He signed a peace with Israel’s Yitzhak Rabin in 1994. He died in 1999 and his son Abdullah took the throne.

Saudi Arabia became independent from the Ottoman Empire over a period of time from 1913 through 1925 when Mecca and Medina were incorporated into the territory. It was in 1932 the areas controlled by the different tribal kings were unified under the name of Saudi Arabia and Abd-al-Aziz was proclaimed King. The nation is ruled by the Saud family since that time. In 1938 oil was discovered in the region making Saudi Arabia the wealthiest state in the region. Recently, in 2015 Saudi Arabia launches air attacks on the Houthi rebels in Yemen, citing Iranian interference in the region. In 2017, Saudi Arabia isolates Qatar in an attempt to have it cut ties with terror organizations. In June of 2017 King Salman names his son Mohammed bin Salman first in line to the throne, and Mohammed begins a purge of the kingdom to consolidate his power.

To the southeast of Israel is the kingdom of Kuwait which gained independence from Britain in 1961. It is rule by an Emir. In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait and annexed it. The Emir and government fled to Saudi Arabia. In 1991 the Gulf war saw the Emir restored to power in Kuwait. In 2003, Kuwait was used as a base for the Second Gulf War lead by America. The Kuwaiti Emir survived the Arab Spring, during a very rocky political period. Recently, Kuwait joined Saudi Arabia in air strikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

To the far south of Israel, occupying the ancient area of Sheba is Yemen. It gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1918. In 1962 the royal family was overthrown and the army set up the Yemen Arab Republic beginning a civil war where the royalists were supported by the Saudi’s and the Republicans were supported by the Egyptians. South Yemen gained independence from the North in 1967 when the People's Republic of Yemen was formed, but Marxists took over in 1969, putting Yemen into the influence of the Soviet bloc. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yemen reunited in 1990, although several groups have tried to establish an independent Yemen in the south. The 2011 Arab Spring dramatically affected Yemen and the president resigned. In 2014 the Houthi rebels took control of the North and a new civil war began in earnest. The Houthi’s are named after their founder and are predominantly Shia Muslims, and are backed by Iran, and are violently anti-west and anti-Israel. The Houthi’s are considered terrorists by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Australia.

These are the nations that form the “Edom, Moab Ammon, Sheba and Dedan” contingent at the time of the end. They have been created in dried out waddies of the Ottoman empire. They have been through much turmoil during their development. What is very interesting is that three of them are still ruled by kings. They are “kings of the south” under the influence of merchants of Tarshish, also united under a monarch, with the exception of its eldest son, America. Now we see them coming into the roles described by the prophets of the Bible.

We all have faith. Not everybody recognises this, but it’s true. We can’t exist without faith.

When you go out in the morning, you have faith that the bus will turn up, or the car will start. You have faith that the shops will be open. If you had no faith, you wouldn’t bother getting out of bed.

Of course, your faith is based on facts – it’s not blind faith. Suppose you want to go into town. You could sit down by the side of a random road and wait for the right bus to come along – that would be blind faith.

You’d probably be waiting for a long time. Or you could look at the timetable to check where and when the bus goes, then wait at the bus stop at the right time – that’s faith based on facts. And that way you’d be much more likely to get to town.

The point is, as you stand and wait at the bus stop you don’t know for certain that the bus will turn up, but you have faith that it will, based on your knowledge of the facts.

The Christian life is also a life of faith. This is not blind faith, but confident faith based on knowledge and experience.

Christian Faith

A friend once said to me, “I wish I had your faith!”

This was a very sad thing to say – it implied that my faith was somehow out of reach for him. That’s not true. I think what he really meant was, “I’d like to have your faith but I’m not prepared to give it a go.”

Faith in God is not difficult to achieve. The apostle Paul puts it succinctly:

“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).

That’s all there is to it! Read the Bible with an open mind and a teachable attitude. God’s word will then do its job and it will instil faith. It may not happen overnight, but it will happen.

Here are three ways in which it can do this:

1 – Fulfilled Prophecy

“You are My witnesses”, says the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen. That you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me” (Isaiah 43:10).

In this chapter God is talking to the people of Israel. He is saying, if you want evidence of My existence just look at yourselves!

Somebody once said that you will never find atheists on a life raft. This is another way of saying that when people are in desperate situations, they cannot afford to leave God out of their reckoning.

The stark fact is that we are all in a desperate situation, always. When people swagger and snap their fingers in God’s face, they are living in a dream world. They are not awake to the fact that life, at its best, is brief and precarious.

That is at its best!

And in these days of world wars and hydrogen bombs, life is more uncertain than ever. There is but a step between us and death.

Let us then begin by acknowledging that we need God. We are all on the same life raft; the sea is rough, and the sky is dark and threatening. We dare not pretend that we don’t believe in Him.

As believers in God, we ask the question: can we find a sensible and satisfying way of worshipping this God in whom we believe?

Would I be right in assuming that we believe in Jesus Christ too? Good! So it looks as if we ought to be enthusiastic members of the community that Christ founded.

What’s missing?

But someone may protest; it’s not so easy as that. Much as we respect and admire Jesus Christ, we don’t feel too happy about modern Christianity. It’s difficult to explain, but there seems to be something missing.

Yes, there is something inadequate about modern Christianity, Many Christians are agreed about this, and fervently wish it were otherwise. Although the sects of Christendom are many and varied, there is a basic sameness about most of them and there is something missing.

Out of touch ...

Where does modern Christianity fail? To begin with, it isn’t modern enough in the things that matter. Don’t misunderstand me! Many Christian communities are trying desperately hard trying too hard to be “with it”, but they are quite out of touch with the real issues of our day. The world is bristling with problems that modern Christians cannot answer.

Here are some of the problems that are too big for the Christians of today:

Will there be another world war?

Will civilization be destroyed?

What is God’s answer to the bomb?

Can we look forward, confidently, to a time when there will be “glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men”?

Ought Christians to take part in war?

Can we expect God to intervene in human affairs?

Do world politics fit into a programme, or are they a matter of chance?

What is really happening in the Middle East?

If God is a God of love, why does He permit suffering?

There must be something wrong with a Christianity that cannot tackle such vital questions as these.

To pursue the matter just a little further: suppose we were to put the first question. Will there be another world war? To people qualified to speak for some of the larger and more respected Christian denominations. There would be no re-assuring uniformity about the answers, and they would not really tell us anything at all. The answers would probably be of two types. One type could be expressed something like this: “It is impossible to predict precisely what the future holds for us, but it is clear that unless men learn to live at peace with each other, war is inevitable.” A pious truism that helps nobody. The other type of answer would be a dogmatic assertion that, to a true Christian, a third world war would be unthinkable; but not a shred of evidence would be offered to support this pleasing sentiment.

... with Christ

Modern Christianity isn’t modern enough. It cannot grapple with the problems of our day. But, paradoxically, it isn’t ancient enough either. The sober truth is that the Christianity of most Christians today is not the Christianity of Christ. If it were, it would be as relevant now as it was when Christ was on earth. The Christianity of our day is out of touch with this modern world because it is not the Christianity of the first century.

Let us come back to an earlier comment. I said that many Christian communities are trying desperately hard to be “with it”. That’s just the trouble. They are too concerned about keeping up to date. They feel that they have lost their grip, and are afraid that their stock will go down still further if they appear old-fashioned. Accordingly, they have “trimmed” their Christianity, and in their attempts to bring it in line with modern thinking, have robbed it of the very things that have made it unique. See the irony: modern Christians cannot deal with modern problems because they are trying too hard to be modern!

If only the Christians of our day knew the authority and power of the religion that Christ founded, they would lose all their inhibitions and hold their heads high. They would also be able to give a good account of themselves. God knows the answers to the problems that perplex men today: and His servants are invited to learn the answers too.

I have spoken about modern Christians trimming their Christianity to try to bring it into line with modern thinking. Let me be more explicit. In their anxiety to keep in step, many Christians have denied, or played down, two distinctive and essential features of the Christianity of Christ:

1. The authority of Scripture.

2. The miraculous element.

There is a striking similarity between the attitude of modern Christians and that of the Sadducees of our Lord’s day. Of the Sadducees, the Lord Jesus said:

“You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God” (Matt 22:29)

Only a Christianity that accepts the absolute authority of Scripture, and believes that God performs miracles, will make sense.

2. A MESSAGE FROM THE CREATOR

God Gives the Instructions

Let us get down to basic things. We believe in God, and we want to worship Him acceptably. How do we set about it?

We can do one of two things. Either we can make our own decisions about how to worship God, and hope that they will be acceptable to Him; or we can follow God’s instructions.

Obviously, the second way is the right one. We are being foolish and arrogant if we try to work out our own system of worship, when God has issued His instructions. We are asking for trouble.

Did you say that you are not sure what God’s instructions are? So you find it hard to make up your mind how you should regard the Bible? Of course you admit that the Bible is an exceptional book; you are very impressed by some parts, especially those about the Lord Jesus Christ; indeed, you have no doubts in your mind that some parts of the Bible are divine; but you would say that other parts so clearly bear the marks of human imperfection that you have no confidence in them.

Drawing the Line – Somewhere

A bit of hard thinking will help here. You say that you believe that some parts of the Bible are divine, but that other parts are human and imperfect. So somewhere in the Bible you have to draw the line between what is human and what is divine. You must agree that the divine parts, because they are divine, are as valuable as anything could be, whereas the human parts are of little worth in comparison. So this business of drawing the line is just about the most important job you will ever be called upon to do. Have you treated it seriously, and really got down to it?

The number of significant earthquakes around the world continues to GROW IN NUMBER. The Illustration below reveals our planet as it continues to be rocked by a growing number of record-breaking earthquakes. The last few weeks again has seen a range of earthquakes around the world and especially around the Pacific 'RING of FIRE'.

Where is next?

Fears rise as a chain of killer quakes hit the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'

Earthquakes struck NZ, Japan, Vanuatu, and Indonesia in less than 24 hours along the 'Ring of Fire'

The 'Ring of Fire' stretches from New Zealand to Chile through Indonesia, Japan, and California

There was also a huge 7.1 magnitude quake in Mexico City on Tuesday - but experts ruled out a connection

In the span of just 24 hours this week, a series of powerful earthquakes rocked several locations along the Pacific one by one this week, all in a seismic region known as the ‘Ring of Fire’ - and experts say they can't rule out California being next.

Roughly 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur in this belt, which loops from New Zealand to Chile, passing through the coasts of Asia and the Americas on the way.

Now, after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit New Zealand on Wednesday followed by temblors off the coasts of Japan (6.1), Vanuatu (6.4), and Indonesia (5.7) early Thursday morning, others in its path – including California – are wondering if they could be next.

SIGNIFICANT WORLD EARTHQUAKES FROM 1982 TO 2014 REPORTED BY THE USGS

Wow, just look at the increase in world-wide earthquakes in the last 10 years, and 2015, 2016 and now 2017 continues to increase. And if that is not showing you clearly what is happening then take a look at this graph.

Christ said this in Luke 21:10-11"Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven."

AND AGAIN IN THE SAME CHAPTER HE SAID THIS:"25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."

Earthquakes – Sign of Christ’s Return

Christ is Coming!

Bible Teaching About Christ's Return to Earth

It was once fashionable in religious circles to say that Jesus Christ would never return to the earth. There are still plenty of professing Christians who believe that. But there are now many others who have come to believe that the Second Coming is a very important event.

True Bible Students have always taught that the Return of Jesus Christ to the earth is vital to the fulfilment of the purpose of God.

Behold Your King!

But what is the Second Coming of the Lord going to be like? For example, would it be possible to miss it altogether and not even be aware that it had occurred? Will it be visible or invisible? Will Jesus be there in person or merely a spiritual presence? And will he come to the earth or only towards the earth? Jesus Christ rose bodily from the grave. He was not an invisible spirit creature but One who could be seen, handled and held (1 John 1:1; Luke 24:39,40). His body was marked by the evidence of his suffering on the cross. Yet he was no longer subject to the limitations of human existence. He could come and go despite locked doors, and on Mount Olivet he ascended bodily to heaven, defying the law of gravity. The disciples had seen him go; he would return visibly. As the angel later said: "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him" (Revelation 1:7). Or as Zechariah the Old Testament prophet had predicted, long before the crucifixion, "They shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him" (12:10).

So it will not do to say that only those who look with faith will see the Lord. Some will look, see, and mourn (Revelation 1:7). Nor will it do to say that Jesus will come invisibly, for the Lord himself warned:

Nor will it do to argue that the Bible talks of the presence of the Lord, meaning that it will be an invisible one. The New Testament also talks about the revelation of the Lord, using a word that means uncovering or manifesting. In fact, the presence (Greek: parousia) of the Lord turns out to be an especially suitable term. One of the most authoritative Greek Lexicons available says of the word:

"It became the official term for a visit of a person of high rank, especially of kings and emperors visiting a province" (Arndt and Gingrich).

It is such a visit by a King that the Scriptures foretell. The crowds who welcomed King Jesus into Jerusalem when he sat astride a donkey and they threw coats and' palm branches before him, shouted out greetings that referred right back to the Promises of God: "Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh in the name of the Lord" (Mark 11:10). Matthew comments that the rejoicing was a foretaste of what had been forecast by Zechariah the prophet, when he wrote "Behold, thy King cometh unto thee".

Now if the initial royal visit was attended by such joy and rejoicing, consider what the next one will be like! The prophet had declared:

"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold thy king cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation. . . and he shall speak peace unto the heathen; and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth" (Zechariah 9:9,10).

Dual Fulfilment

This Scripture illustrates a widely used feature of Bible prophecy: its joint short and long-term character. Jerusalem rejoiced at the Kingly coming of Jesus -- "Lowly and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass" -- just as the prophet had said. But their joy was short-lived, for he did not then go on to establish worldwide peace, or commence to rule from Jerusalem over a Kingdom that was to last forever. Jesus completed enough of the prophecy at that time to demonstrate that he was the Coming One, and to give us confidence that he will return to complete the promised transformation of the earth. Zechariah compressed the two comings in such a way that there appeared to be no interval between them. This has led some people to argue that the Kingdom will never come, because, they say, even Jesus expected it in the First Century, or at most shortly afterwards. It has thus been dismissed by some as an early Christian hope, which has now been superseded by a superior understanding. But when all the Scriptures are studied carefully, it becomes clear that the Coming of Jesus was not to occur immediately after his ascension to heaven.

The Day and the Hour

Any attempt to show that Jesus was mistaken about the time of his Coming is doomed to failure. He clearly stated, more than once, that he did not know:

"For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face..."(1 Corinthians 13:12).

Paul was referring to the rather imperfect mirrors of the day, using this lovely image to explain that today we cannot fully comprehend the future, but we will do so in due course. We are not given many detailed descriptions of what the future Kingdom of God will be like. We know the Kingdom of God will be established at the return of Jesus to the earth, and we know that it will be incomparably better than anything which exists now. But how much do we know about it?

The last book of the Bible says:

"Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed… They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years" (Revelation 20:4).

Twice more in the following verses, we read, “when the thousand years are ended” (v4, 7). The initial phase of the Kingdom of God appears to be a one thousand year period, with both mortal and immortal parts to the population.

This is the period we call ‘the Millennium’. It is followed by a further time which has no end.

This idea is supported by the Apostle Paul, who talks about an initial phase in which Jesus reigns, without specifying the period. During this time, Jesus removes all opposition to his reign, and then he can hand over the kingdom to his Father, the Lord God.

"Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet… that God may be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:24–25, 28).

The Beginning and the End

What do we know about the Millennium and the period which follows it?

The Bible opens with a picture of what God originally planned.

"God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31).

The record in Genesis continues:

"Out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Genesis 2:9).

This sounds idyllic: Eden was a wonderful place in which to live, the place that God intended for the first man and woman. Later in the chapter we read, “The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it” (Genesis 2:15).

The man and woman were not just left to be at leisure, they had work to do. It does not appear that this was a burden to them, as work was later to become. We discover that the man Adam, and Eve his wife, must have spent time in the evening of each day communing with the angel who represented God. “And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day” (Genesis 3:8). This reads as if this was something which happened routinely.

For Adam and Eve, life in the Garden of Eden must have been a paradise.

They had all they needed, an ideal climate, no threats of danger, nothing to fear. There was sufficient food, pleasant work to do, and at the end of the day they spent time in the company of an angel. If all that is to be restored in the Kingdom of God, what a wonderful existence it will be. That seems to be the prospect held out also at the end of the Bible:

"Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him." (Revelation 22:1–3).

This last prophecy of all gives a picture of the garden of Eden restored, but now on a larger scale, able to hold a much bigger population. The leaves of the tree of life are there to heal the nations, which demonstrates the loving provision of the Lord God, for they are in desperate need of healing.

The curse which followed the sin of Adam and Eve will be removed. It is a continuation of the scenario in Eden.

Right in the middle of this vision of the future is the throne of the Lord God, and also of the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ.

THE OFFER OF LIFE OR DEATH

“Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him… This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life… Deuteronomy Chapter 30:12-20

From this passage we see how important it is to each one of us that we seek after God and His Word the Bible to us.

Without this we have no hope of LIFE, but only a future of DEATH.

This Word of God was originally given to the Nation of Israel and later it spread via the Apostles of Christ to the World, that even we today might have this same HOPE of LIFE ETERNAL.

It is UP to YOU then to seek out God’s Word, to KNOW what is the TRUTH of God’s Word so that you and your family might KNOW the way of LIFE ETERNAL and the great HOPE of living in God’s Kingdom on EARTH.

Do not let your HOPE rest upon others and most importantly on what others teach, search it out for yourself because we have been warned that the churches would be astray from God’s word in the last days.

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn awaytheir ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4

Too much is at stake for you to not act yourself to seek out the TRUTH.

Christ himself has told us to do this when he said…

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-24